So this has been.my favorite song of OTEP's since it came out in 2004, and I always thought it was a song about a child's narrative of suffering in an abusive Christian home. But now that I am revisiting the lyrics, I am seeing something totally new.
This song could be gospel of John but from the perspective of Jesus.
Jesus was NOT having a good time up to and during the crucifixion. Everyone in the known world at the time looked to him with fear, admiration or disgust and he was constantly being asked questions. He spoke in "verses, prophesies and curses". He had made an enemy of the state, and believed the world was increasingly wicked and fallen from grace, or that he was in the "mouth of madness".
The spine of atlas is the structure that allows the titan to hold the world up. Jesus challenged the state and in doing so became a celebrated resistance figure. It also made him public enemy #1.
All of this happened simply because he was doing his thing, not because of any agenda he had or strategy.
And then he gets scourged (storm of thorns)
There are some plot holes here but I think it's an interesting interpretation.
So much for destiny,
A pin prick on my knee,
The frost you paint
Across our dead affair.
I sensed the toxic aura
From the second we touched,
You were stitched up venom
And I was the cursed from the Vedic.
Time is a one way track
And I am not coming back,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
Time tired you're tainted through,
Wind (wins?), songs and substitutes,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now.
The afterlife is steep,
We wonder and retreat,
And everyone is after us.
Skirt the gone street hawkers
With the black lemonade,
Keep an arrow trained on their
Conflicted minds 'cause they stutter.
Time is the one way track
And I am not coming back,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
Time tired you're tainted through,
Wins, songs and substitutes,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now!
A pin prick on my knee,
The frost you paint
Across our dead affair.
I sensed the toxic aura
From the second we touched,
You were stitched up venom
And I was the cursed from the Vedic.
Time is a one way track
And I am not coming back,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
Time tired you're tainted through,
Wind (wins?), songs and substitutes,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now.
The afterlife is steep,
We wonder and retreat,
And everyone is after us.
Skirt the gone street hawkers
With the black lemonade,
Keep an arrow trained on their
Conflicted minds 'cause they stutter.
Time is the one way track
And I am not coming back,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
Time tired you're tainted through,
Wins, songs and substitutes,
I dream in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now,
I bleed in beige
Why'd you leave me so far now!
Lyrics submitted by Racazip, edited by Nellyphant
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